CAR Seminar Series: Linking the Tailpipe to the Ambient: Emissions and Atmospheric Transformations of Vehicle Tailpipe Exhaust

Andrew May, senior research associate, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering

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Center for Automotive Research
930 Kinnear Road
Columbus, OH 43212
United States

Abstract

Gasoline and diesel vehicles can contribute significantly to ambient particulate matter. However, this contribution is complicated by dilution-driven evaporation of primary emissions and photochemical production of secondary organic aerosol. This work explores both of these processes and provides insight to the relative importance of each to the overall atmospheric burden of particulate matter from these sources.

About the Speaker

Andrew May is a senior research associate in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering. He will begin his appointment in the same department as tenure-track assistant professor effective September 1, 2015, at which time he will also become an Associate CAR Fellow. In these roles he will be investigating tailpipe exhaust emissions from light- and heavy-duty vehicles. Future research plans aligned with CAR include atmospheric impacts of new and emerging vehicle technologies and fuels, considering both emissions and atmospheric transformations. May joins Ohio State from Colorado State University, where he was a post-doctoral scholar in the Department of Atmospheric Science, following the completion of his doctorate in mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.